ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,375, issued on May 19, was assigned to Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Jiangsu, China).

"Redundant backup deployment method for microservice instances in edge computing environments" was invented by Qiang Wu (Jiangsu, China), Chenghao Li (Jiangsu, China), Guanchen Wu (Jiangsu, China) and Ran Wang (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a redundant backup deployment method for microservice instances in edge computing environments. Redundant backup deployment of the microservice instances and the selection of a primary instance are acquired using Transformer-based deep reinforc...